People named James Dickens

James Dickens of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina was born on January 17, 1917, and died at age 59 years old in July 1976.

James H Dickens of Whitakers, Nash County, NC was born on December 28, 1914, and died at age 95 years old on September 30, 2010.

James Jr Dickens of Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia was born on November 23, 1925, and died at age 54 years old in April 1980.

James Dickens of Hartford, Hartford County, CT was born on March 8, 1922, and died at age 76 years old on March 10, 1998.

James A Dickens of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX was born on February 1, 1923, and died at age 74 years old on November 16, 1997.

James David Dickens of Texas was born on July 8, 1964, and died at age 44 years old on November 18, 2008.

James N Dickens of China, Jefferson County, TX was born on October 2, 1927, and died at age 75 years old on September 12, 2003.

James Kevin Dickens of Kingsland, Llano County, Texas was born on January 29, 1957, and died at age 53 years old on March 20, 2010.

James A Dickens Jr of Bronx, Bronx County, NY Africa was born on August 26, 1947, and died at age 59 years old on January 12, 2007. James Dickens was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 32 Site 144 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

James L Dickens of Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas was born on March 14, 1907, and died at age 73 years old in September 1980.

James E Dickens of Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida was born on August 12, 1917, and died at age 63 years old in December 1980.

James D Dickens of Collins, Covington County, Mississippi was born on July 16, 1923, and died at age 64 years old in January 1988.

James M Dickens of Carson, Jefferson Davis County, MS was born on February 8, 1928, and died at age 76 years old on February 13, 2004.

James C Dickens of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on June 30, 1923, and died at age 59 years old in July 1982.

James A Dickens of Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky was born on April 18, 1917, and died at age 64 years old in July 1981.

James E Dickens of Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio was born on November 5, 1926, and died at age 81 years old on May 26, 2008.

James H Dickens of Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut was born on May 20, 1907, and died at age 70 years old in January 1978.

James C Dickens of Gonzalez, Escambia County, Florida was born on October 8, 1919, and died at age 65 years old in October 1984.

James M Dickens of Kite, Johnson County, Georgia was born on February 2, 1907, and died at age 72 years old in May 1979.

James F Dickens of Union Grove, Iredell County, NC was born on May 8, 1923, and died at age 71 years old on July 12, 1994.

James M Dickens of Ennice, Alleghany County, NC was born on June 12, 1911, and died at age 83 years old on August 30, 1994.

James H Dickens of Rock Creek, Raleigh County, WV was born on July 28, 1925, and died at age 85 years old on April 4, 2011.

James H Dickens of Ashland, Boyd County, KY was born on June 1, 1921, and died at age 83 years old on December 22, 2004.

James L Dickens of Norfolk, Norfolk City County, Virginia was born on June 23, 1923, and died at age 59 years old in January 1983.

Little Jimmy Dickens stood just 4’10” tall but, wearing the right boots and hat—a white straw Stetson with a 5.5” crown—he towered at 5’5". Known for his small stature, his comic songs, and his rhinestone-studded “Nudie suits,” Dickens has been called country music’s foremost entertainer and was the first country musician to circle the globe on a world tour. Though he never had a consistent presence in the upper levels of the country charts, Dickens had a reputation as an outstanding ballad singer and managed to have hits in every decade between 1940 and 1980. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983. The eldest of 13 children, James Cecil Dickens was born at home in the tiny unincorporated town of Bolt, deep in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia. He was raised by his grandparents and spent Saturday nights gathered around a battery-powered radio, listening to the Grand Ole Opry. In 1938, while still in high school, he began appearing on radio station WJLS-Beckley, where he opened the morning show by crowing like a rooster. Well now, that rooster crow goes way back. That rooster crow was before they let me sing! My uncle and two of his buddies had a fifteen-minute program on WJLS and they'd take me with ‘em. One day the manager said, “We need somebody to crow like a rooster.” I said, “You got him right here!” Dickens spent the next ten years performing on stations throughout the Midwest, often capitalizing on his diminutive size to play roles much younger than his actual age, and it was during a stint on WIBC-Indianapolis that T. Texas Tyler dubbed him “Little Jimmy.” In 1946, Roy Acuff heard him perform in Cincinnati and was impressed. Two years later, Acuff invited him to Nashville; he introduced Dickens to Art Satherly at Columbia Records and officials from the Grand Ole Opry. Dickens joined the Opry in August and signed with Columbia in September. Columbia released their first Dickens single, “Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait,” that February. It peaked at No. 7 and kicked off a string of hits for Dickens. His biggest, “May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose,” came in 1965 and reached No. 1 on the country music charts and No. 15 on the pop charts. Famous for such novelty songs, Dickens also excelled as a singer of more serious pieces. His “heart” songs – “Take Me As I Am,” “We Could,” “Just When I Needed You,” and others – are “some of the best ballads the industry had to offer,” biographer Eddie Stubbs argues, “interpreted by one of the genre’s most emotion packed voices.” Toward the end of Dickens’s life, fellow West Virginia native Brad Paisley included him in a number of country music videos and featured him on several CDs, along with other Opry mainstays George Jones and Bill Anderson, calling themselves “the Kung-Pao Buckaroos.” He continued to make regular appearances as a host on the Opry. His last appearance on the show was just days before he suffered the stroke that would lead to his death, a week later. At his passing, Little Jimmy Dickens had been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 66 years, longer than any other country artist in history. Born: December 19, 1920, Bolt, West Virginia; Died: January 2, 2015, Nashville, Tennessee

James Everett Dickens was born on November 5, 1926 in Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio United States, and died at age 81 years old on May 26, 2008 in Jackson. James Dickens was buried on May 26, 2008 at Monroe hollow cemetary Monroe Hollow Rd, in Oak Hill. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James Everett Dickens.

James M Dickens was born on December 24, 1920, and died at age 62 years old on October 19, 1983. James Dickens was buried at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery Section 1 Site 1832 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, in San Antonio, Tx. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James M Dickens.

James Clyde Dickens of Springfield, Sangamon County, IL was born on April 19, 1926, and died at age 82 years old on February 12, 2009. James Dickens was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section 8 Site 1675 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood.

James E Dickens was born on June 2, 1922, and died at age 60 years old on July 8, 1982. James Dickens was buried at Nashville National Cemetery Section HH Site 258 1420 Gallatin Road, South, in Madison, Tn. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember James E Dickens.